Derek's Dime Museum

Roches - Another World LP

Wow, what happened here?  The first LP is SO sweet and raw and unproduced and that was the whole appeal of The Roches.  This one has an over-produced eighties "sound" including synths which doesn't work with these beautiful female vocals at all.    Heavy guitar too!?   Warner made a real misstep with this one.  The lyrics are still clever though...  Bottom line, there's a great LP in here somewhere, buried under all this production...

Gina X 45 RPM single

Around 1980, I purchased an album by the German artist Gina X called Nice Mover, which was very different for the time… It was a combination of punk and electrobeat mixed with a little disco… There is very little about Gina X on the internet.  English was her second language by a long shot, but still the LP had an interesting Grace Jones feel to it.  Finally found an additional 45 rpm single of hers after 30 years.  As I bought it someone else remarked "she's good", so I'm not alone.  Still interesting after all that time.  "Maybe my lover is a microphone" "You are perfect you are shear"...

Cardboard Brains 45 RPM EP

OMG, how rare is this?  Sealed copy of  the original 1979 12" 45 RPM ep which includes "Caesar Drives a Fast Car".  Favourite Toronto art punks and featured on CFNY back in the day, I haven't heard this since it came out...   Still holds up, almost goth, before there was goth.  Amazing EP, these guys were great...  "Rescue Crew" is almost psychobilly.  They've already tossed out the punk roots which made their first single so great, but this is a great disk and way ahead of it's time.

OMD - Telegraph 45 RPM single

I still love these guys.  Telegraph is a steampunk anthem featured here, as is the B side.  BTW, So is Tesla Girls released elsewhere...